Codonopsis pilosula (Franch.) Nannf.

It's perennial plant. It's got milk. Stem with most verrucose stem scars, roots usually hypertrophy spindle or spindle-shaped cylindrical, less branched or slightly branched below the middle, 15-30 cm long, 1-3 cm in diameter, surface gray-yellow, 5-10 cm upper part of a fine ring. Stems twining about 1-2 m long, 2-4 mm in Diam. , with numerous branches, lateral branches 15-50 cm, branchlets 1-5 cm, with leaves, sterile or apex bearing flowers, yellow-green or yellow-white, glabrous. Leaves alternate on main stem and lateral branches, subopposite on branchlets, petiole 0.5-2.5 cm long, sparsely shortly hairy, leaf blade ovate or narrowly ovate, 1-6.5 cm long, 0.8-5 cm wide, tip obtuse or slightly acuminate, base nearly cordate, margin undulate-obtusely serrate, leaf blade attenuate on branches, leaf base rounded or Cuneate, upper green, lower gray-green, both surfaces sparsely or densely appressed hirsute or pilose, rarely glabrous. Flowers solitary at branch tips, alternate or subopposite to Petiole, pedicellate. CALYX ADNATE to middle of ovary, tube semiglobose, lobes broadly lanceolate or narrowly oblong, 1-2 cm long, Ca. 6-8 mm wide, apex obtuse or acuminate, undulate or nearly entire, interspersed with Bay Apiculate; Corolla Superior, broadly campanulate, length Ca. 1.8-2.3 cm, 1.8-2.5 cm in Diam. , Yellowish Green, inside with marked purple spots,-lobed, Lobes Deltoid, apical, entire; filaments base slightly enlarged, Ca. 5 mm, anthers oblong, 5-6 mm long; stigma with white prickles. Capsule proximally hemispheric, distally shortly conical. Seeds numerous, ovate, wingless, minute, Brownish Yellow, smooth glabrous. Flowering Period 7-10 months.

They are found in southeastern Tibet, western Sichuan, northwestern Yunnan, eastern Gansu, southern Shaanxi, Ningxia, eastern Qinghai, Henan, Shanxi, Hebei, Inner Mongolia and northeast China. North Korea, Mongolia and the Far East of the Soviet Union. Born in 1560-3100 meters above sea level in the mountain forest edge and thickets. There are a lot of cultivations all over China.

After one year's growth, the seedlings are planted in spring or autumn, in mid-and late-march to early-april in spring, and in mid-and late-october to early-november in autumn, according to the line spacing 20-30 cm ditch depth 16-18 cm, plant spacing 7-10 meters, the Root Oblique on the ditch, so that the root raised, the root a little straight, and then cover the soil fill, cover the soil to more than 7 cm.